# Pause a MC

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-a-mc/19163>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 24, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-a-mc/19163 "2003-04-24T22:30:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![LiquidRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@LiquidRage](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/LiquidRage)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-a-mc/19163/1 "2003-04-24T22:30:33Z")

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hi does anyone know how to pause a MC? for example if i have a ball moving from left to right and i want to press a button that will pause it in between the movement so that it can stop and when i press the buttons one more time i can make it continue with what it was doing? plz help me with this as soon as u can anyone :cowboy:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-a-mc/19163/2 "2003-04-24T22:44:58Z")

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you can use a variable… 🙂

ie.

```auto
myButton.onRelease = function() {
if (!paused) {
ball.stop();
paused = 1;
} else {
ball.play();
paused = 0;
}
};

```

and welcome to kirupa forum. 😉 =)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-a-mc/19163/3 "2003-04-25T00:30:48Z")

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AH!!! stop works? i needed this earlier and ended up doing a whole framesloaded procedure which didnt work…i thought stop(); would end the movie